Loverboy
by Joan Micklin Silver
from Sony Pictures
Out of college for the summer and on the outs with his girlfriend Jenny Randy Bodek (Patrick Dempsey) lines up the perfect "summer vocation." As Senor Pizza's busiest delivery boy Randy's route takes him to the finest homes and some of the most gorgeous women ever to grace Beverly Hills. But it's not long before "take out" turns to "make out" when Randy realizes that his customers want something more than the regular fare! After learning some valuable lessons about love from these amazing crazy ladies - while hightailing it from their highly-jealous husbands - Randy knows he wants only one thing... Jenny. LOVERBOY is a hilarious look at a young man's coming of age in a business where the customer always comes first.System Requirements:Run Time: 98 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: PG-13 UPC: 043396037229 Manufacturer No: 03722
Crossing Delancey
by Joan Micklin Silver
from Warner Home Video
A sweet tempered urban love story, Crossing Delancey argues that true love may be in the first place you look. Amy Irving is a single Jewish woman working at an upscale bookstore on the Upper West Side of New York. As much as she longs to be a part of the intellectual literary scene, she is tethered to her roots on the Lower East Side, where her old-fashioned grandmother is forever trying to fix her up. Irving has her eye on a handsome brooding author, but her grandmother enlists the help of a local matchmaker to fix her up with Peter Riegert, a quiet Jewish man who runs a pickle stand in the neighborhood. Soon she must decide what it is she really wants out of life and what love really means to her. Though a very traditional love story, Crossing Delancey has its moments of soul searching drama and an unlikely romance. --Robert Lane
A contemporary New York comedy about Isabella "Izzy" Grossman a single independent woman who is caught in a romantic quandary when her grandmother hires a Jewish matchmaker to find her a husband.Running Time: 97 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY UPC: 085391107422 Manufacturer No: 110742
Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even
by Joan Micklin Silver
from New Line Home Video
Family problems have never been this hilarious! What's a teenage girl to do with a crazy new stepfamily except escape? That's exactly what Hillary Wolf (Home Alone) does. And it brings all her moms dads and step-siblings out in force to find her.Running Time: 98 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY UPC: 794043836022
Hester Street
by Joan Micklin Silver
from Homevision
Hester Street is a delightfully quaint film about the assimilation of Jewish immigrants in America in the late 1800s. Steven Keats is Jake, a self-made Yankee who has shaved his beard and side curls in favor of an updated look. An émigré from Russia, Jake's been living in New York's Lower East Side for five years, taking up with a new woman and earning enough money to support his dance hall ways. To his dismay, his wife, Gitl (played charmingly by Carol Kane), and son, Yossele, join him from the Old World. Jake is embarrassed by his wife, who retains her religious ways, wearing the wigs and scarves that tradition dictates. In turn, Gitl is distraught over the changes in Jake, who insists on calling their son Joey and trying to modernize them both.
Those used to Kane as a comedian will be surprised at her quiet performance in this simple period piece, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award®. Her story, though, is compelling, and in the end, immensely satisfying. The black and white film is rough around the edges--microphones in shots, occasional poor sound--but Hester Street nonetheless offers an engaging look at another time and a completely different way of life. --Jenny Brown
Invisible Child
by Joan Micklin Silver
from Starlight Video
Annie (Rita Wilson) is the perfect wife and loving mother of two children, who believes she has a third child named Maggie only Maggie does not exist! Her husband Tom (Victor Garber), hires Gillian (Tushka Bergen) to become their nanny. The whole family has played along with Annie's delusion for years, hoping it would pass. Gillian is asked to do the same. Months later, Gillian decides to try and help Annie and does some research on her own. Unintentionally, she alerts authorities who launch an investigation. Will she be responsible for having Annie institutionalized, and taken from her family... a family that Gillian has grown to love? Drama. 93 Minutes.
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
by Joan Micklin Silver
from Monterey Video
Seen on PBS
Written By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Starring: Shelly Duvall, Bud Cort ("Harold & Maude")
Description: It's the hot summer of 1919. Visiting her cousin Marjorie (Veronica Cartwright), sweet-but-dull Bernice (Shelly Duvall) is transformed into a smooth-talking man-trap by her vampish kin. However, the "make-over" works too well, Bernice becomes the belle of the ball, captivating every boy's interest even Marjorie's boyfriend Warren (Bud Cort). The now worldly Bernice has the last laugh a clever and ironic twist. One of the best screen translations of F. Scott Fitzgerald's literary work, Bernice also includes the delightful supporting role performances of Dennis Christopher ("Breaking Away") and Polly Holliday ("Alice").
DVD Extras: About the Author, Actors' Bios, About the American Short Story Collection, Henry Fonda Intro, Printable Study Guide
A Private Matter
by Joan Micklin Silver
from Hbo Home Video
In 1962, her decision divided a nation. The nation is still divided. Based on the true story of the regional presenter of the 1960's TV show ' 'The Romper Room' ', when Sherri has to terminate a pregnancy and the press find out, her private matter soon becomes a controversial and all-too public affair.
In The Presence of Mine Enemies
by Joan Micklin Silver
from Geneon [Pioneer]
1996 Academy Aard nominee Armin Mueller-Stahl leads an international all-star cast including Charles Dance and Elina Lowensoln in this powerful story of a man tryin gto hold his family together in a world uncontrollably coming apart. Inside the walls of the famous Warsaw ghetto of 1943, amidst the methodic cruelty of the occupying Germans - andgrowing rumors of revolt - Rabbi Adam Heller (Mueller-Stahl) works to maintain calm within his cummunity while wrestling with his own sense of growing despair. But the sudden and angry reappearance of his son and a miraculous chance at survival for his daughter leads Heller to confront the ulitmate crisis of faith - and his one final shot at redemption - in this moving story from acclaimed screenwriter Rod Sterling.
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